{"id":415,"date":"2010-02-25T04:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T04:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/blog\/?p=415"},"modified":"2010-02-25T04:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T04:45:00","slug":"skill-variations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"Skill Variations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects<\/em>. ~ Robert Heinlein&#160; <\/p>\n<p>I keep thinking of this quote lately!&#160; \u201cSpecialization is for insects.\u201d&#160; These evenings in the studio continue to be both fun and intense.&#160; It used to be somewhat frustrating to be both musician and engineer; switching from right brain (creativity and spontaneity) with performing to left brain (precision and deliberate focus) for engineering and editing. I can recall the guys in the band and I all having difficulty with it not so long ago.&#160; But it\u2019s getting easier to just shift from one to the other.&#160; It used to drain the creativity right out of me to have to do analytical work on the computer.&#160; This more flexible feeling is so liberating!&#160; It feels so empowering to be able feel confident about various skills.&#160; <\/p>\n<p> <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>We human beings are much more capable than we know and probably most of the time we just take our variety of skills for granted.&#160; And now with youtube, anything you might want to learn can be demonstrated instantly.&#160; It\u2019s a global community to learn from, accessible to anyone with internet access.&#160; And why it\u2019s so important to make that access available to everyone.<\/p>\n<p>For example, I was delighted to see that out in the garden my very first grafts of a braeburn apple branch onto a crabapple tree are beginning to grow!&#160; A year ago I had no idea about grafting.&#160;&#160; I first saw it on youtube. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I might add a number of skills to Heinlein\u2019s list, but he\u2019s pretty much got it covered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[82,145,194],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","category-recording","tag-human-potential","tag-robert-heinlein","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}